Ohio Republican lawmakers’ proposal would treat abortion as homicide, end IVF in state
CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
Reps. Levi Dean, R-Xenia, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, are introducing the “Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act.” The bill would treat abortion like homicide by granting criminal and civil protections from the point of fertilization. The bill also seeks to end in vitro fertilization, where an egg and sperm are fertilized outside the body, and could affect some contraception.
“IVF thrives on its ability to treat human beings as something lesser,” said Austin Beigel, president of End Abortion Ohio. “When you do identify all human beings as people under the law, what will happen is IVF will effectively end itself.”